UNKNOWN PERSONS IN MASKS ATTACK MEMBERS OF GUARD OF NOR ZHAMANAKNER
PARTY’S CHAIRMAN AND KIDNAP THEM

YEREVAN, APRIL 21, NOYAN TAPAN. At about 12:55 of April 21, near the
Erebuni region’s police station, 12 unknown persons in masks attacked
two official cars of Nor Zhamanakner (New Times) party chairman. Those
attacking were armed with pistols and sub-machine-guns. As Noyan Tapan
correspondent was informed from the party’s Press Service, they
rudely, with shouts and threats laid down the members of the party
chairman’s guard and inflicted a corporal injury to the driver. Then,
leaving Aram Karapetian in the street, the armed persons took away the
members of the guard and the drivers by the official cars of the party
in an unknown direction. The unknown persons in masks took the attack
by several cameras. According to preliminary data revealed by the Nor
Zhamanakner party’s Press Service, the armed persons were from the
subdivisions of RA National Security Service. The party qualified the
incident as “purely an Armenian manifestation of the political
brigandage”.